Bloomberg: Supreme Court appears to side with Biden admin in abortion case, according to draft briefly posted on website

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The Supreme Court appears poised to temporarilyallow abortions in medical emergencies in Idaho, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing a document that was inadvertently posted on the court’s website in an astonishing breach of protocol.

The unsigned opinion showed that three conservatives – Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – sided with the court’s three liberals to block the state from enforcing the ban in certain emergency situations.

People line up to get into the US Supreme Court on the day where decisions ares expected to be handed down, in Washington, DC, on June 26.

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The court acknowledged a document was briefly posted, but stressedthat no opinion is final until announced by the justices. The abortion case is considered among the most significant of the current term that is winding down ahead of the July 4 holiday.

It’s the second time in two years that a major decision dealing with an abortion case has been prematurely released. Two years ago, Politico obtained a draft of the high court’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade – a document that was substantially the same as the final opinion the court released weeks later.

At issue is Idaho’s strict abortion ban, which provides an exception for the life of the pregnant woman. The Biden administration argued that a federal law also requires hospitals to perform abortions in cases where the health of the pregnant woman is at stake.

The decision means that an order from a trial judge that had blocked enforcement of Idaho’s abortion ban in medical emergencies would go back into effect while the case continues to be argued in